Something i got off the net ... cool one ...

Hell As Explained By a Chemistry Student:The following is supposedly an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term. The answer by one student was so "profound" that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well.
Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?
Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant. One student, however, wrote the following:
First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially.
Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added. This gives two possibilities:
1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.
2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.
So which is it?If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, "it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you," and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number 2 must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it Follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct...leaving only Heaven thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why last night, Teresa kept shouting "Oh my God."

THIS STUDENT RECEIVED THE ONLY "A" :)

The law of entropy says that all systems, left unattended, will run down. Unless new energy is pumped in, the organism will disintegrate
I guess that the human mind is a great example of a system under entropy.... we always need some josh is our lives ...

"To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flowerhold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour." - William Blake, his description of enlightenment

MS year end review :
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2004/dec04/12-14YearReview.asp

One For the dreamer:

Imagination rules the world - Napoleon

Imagination is more important than knowledge. -Einstein


Songwriter Fred Knipe once wrote a song about this. It was for the soundtrack of a video produced for teenagers about how to visualize themselves succeeding at what they wanted to do:
"That's you / in your wildest dreams / doing the wildest things / no one else can do. If you / just love and keep those dreams / the wildest dreams / you'll make yourself come true."

To make ourselves come true we need to develop the strength to dream.

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”- Eleanor Roosevelt

You must have always wondered why there is a uname / pwd in Oracle called, Scott/Tiger....
Who is this scott ? Here is the answer to ur query....
So, who is Scott?
Bruce Scott was one of the first employees at Oracle (then Software Development Laboratories). He co-founded Gupta Technology (now known as Centura Software) in 1984 with Umang Gupta, and later became CEO and founder of PointBase, Inc. Bruce was co-author and co-architect of Oracle V1, V2 and V3.
The SCOTT schema (EMP and DEPT tables), with password TIGER, was created by him. Tiger was the name of his cat.

Techno vocabulary..

It can be called the "Buzzword" writing method. It is simple. There
are three columns of words involved, as follows:


0. Balanced 0. Management 0. contingency
1. total 1. Organization 1. Hardware(or)software
2. integrated 2. reciprocal 2. projection
3. compatible 3. monitored 3. time-frame
4. synchronized 4. digital 4. concept
5. optimal 5. modular 5. programming
6. responsive 6. transitional 6. mobility
7. functional 7. Incremental 7. capability
8. parallel 8. third-generation 8. flexibility
9. systemized 9. policy 9. options


Just select any three-digit number; then use the corresponding
Buzzwords from the above grid, e.g., 257: "integrated modular capability".
Don't worry if it doesn't make sense to you; it won't mean anything to
anyone else either, but they'll think you're just smarter than they are so
they won't say anything!! ..


You can propose "systemized reciprocal options" (929) to achieve
"optimal transitional flexibility" (568), so that we can think of an
"integrated monitored projection" ..............and your boss will probably
promote you or your customer will be blown away with your technological
superiority !

"A person who does not make a choice, makes a choice "
- Old Jewish saying

Microsoft launches its desktop search tool (http://beta.toolbar.msn.com )
with the following features

The applications provide the following benefits:
Quick, precise retrieval of desktop files. Consumers can quickly and easily search the thousands of files on their PCs, including Outlook contacts or calendar files, Adobe PDFs files, or Microsoft Office Word or PowerPoint files. As a result, consumers will save time and increase their productivity.
Information when and where it is needed. The MSN toolbars save time, allowing consumers to find precisely what they need with less effort, when and where they need it, with less effort and within seconds. The MSN toolbars are conveniently designed to work with Outlook, Windows Explorer, Internet Explorer and the Windows desktop. The MSN Toolbars also give consumers quick access to MSN Messenger, MSN Hotmail and MSN Spaces, enabling them to initiate common communication tasks right from the bar, including e-mail, instant messaging and inserting URLs into spaces blogs.
Familiar interfaces and useful results. Consumers can use desktop search when browsing files in Windows in a comfortable and familiar format, enabling them to open files in their associated application directly from their desktop search results and enabling quick access to actions such as managing, sharing, deleting or playing files.
New MSN Search service. MSN Toolbar Suite displays Web search results from the recently launched MSN Search Beta release, a new algorithmic search engine built by Microsoft and designed to help consumers find precisely the information they are looking for by providing more useful answers to their questions and more control over their search experience.
Privacy protection. The MSN Toolbar Suite is built on the current Windows security and privacy model, and respects the privacy of multiple users on a single PC by utilising the Windows authentication and user account management infrastructure, helping to provide consumers with a better-protected and more private desktop searching experience.

Indias 40 richest
http://www.forbes.com/business/2004/12/09/cz_1209indiaintro.html

Engineers for the space agency's experimental X-43A project prepare to break the aircraft speed record to MACH 10 But the hypersonic jet flight could be NASA's last.

http://www.nasa.gov/missions/research/x43-main.html

Wipro does a shadi.com ? really ....
http://www.rediff.com/money/2004/dec/10wipro.htm

Some great bloggs on BizTalk 2004

http://blogs.msdn.com/scottwoo/Rss.aspx
http://www.traceofthought.net/SyndicationService.asmx/GetRss
http://blogs.msdn.com/kevinsmi/Rss.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/biztalk_core_engine/Rss.aspx

Using CLR Integration in SQL Server 2005http://msdn.microsoft.com/sql/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnsql90/html/sqlclrguidance.asp

An interesting video at MSDN TV about SQL Server 2005/Yukon + Visual studio
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20041104SQLServerML/manifest.xml

Google just made the Internet significantly bigger -- at least for the worlds of search and book publishing. http://www.forbes.com/2004/12/14/cz_qh_1214google.html

An entire site dedidated to P Invoke
http://pinvoke.net/

This is awesome stuff, you can use this to cut down developement time by providing user with IDE thats tailor made for the specific domain/application interface

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/12/CustomFormsDesigner/default.aspx

A must see for code generators etc